WD Red Plus

Pros

• My server was made up of some old 12TB WD Red Plus drives because they were extremely quiet for their decent capacity and price.
• Mine is loaded with 4x6TB WD Red Pluses.
• I ordered a 12TB WD Red Plus with a sale and am planning to start using it as the primary archive.
• NAS drives with CMR like the Red Plus series eliminate this concern however, and are thus usually the go-to pick.
• NAS drives (Seagate Ironwolf (+Ironwolf Pro), WD Red (+Red Pro, Red Plus)). these are the good ones for most homelab users. Built solidly, designed for good performance under fairly heavy workloads. ... (the WD Red Pro and WD Red Plus ar...

Cons

• These joined 2 x 12TB WD Red Plus drives running in SHR-1.
• Yes mainly budget reasons I could not afford wd red plus they're very very expensive
• While high capacity WD Red Plus drives are based on enterprise platforms (specifically models >= 10 TB in size), lower capacity ones are not. Their warranty is also 3 years, which is a step above the 2-year warranties of other lowly cons...
• Those WD's are based on the air filled Hitachi drives, and those are notoriously loud and hot.
• I also have a Cenmate USB 3.0 enclosure filled with my leftover 6TB drives (3 reformatted Toshibas and a newer WD Red Plus) running without RAID for ad-hoc local copy and mid-term non-critical hot-swappable storage when needed.